Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Bonaventura, DH Mellor / A Oliver and Jos Ortega y Gassett

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8 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

4037	Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)

20752

For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

4027	Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16643

Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

4029	Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16696

Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation

4039	Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

20756

Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett]